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Umbrales sonoros: Música y transculturación en la obra temprana de Alejo Carpentier
Get PDFResumen temporalmente no disponible. La presente obra no cuenta con resumen provisto por el autor.Fil: Maxey, Bryce. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Umbrales sonoros: Música y transculturación en la obra temprana de Alejo Carpentier
Get PDFResumen temporalmente no disponible. La presente obra no cuenta con resumen provisto por el autor.Fil: Maxey, Bryce. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Otro Cervantes en Borges: los capítulos invisibles de Pierre Menard
Get PDFIn more than ninety of his works, Borges refers to Cervantes directly, and, in numerous others, he implicitly alludes to the father of the modern novel. Focusing on “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”, this essay analyzes, on the one hand, the games of self-representation hidden in Pierre Menard's visible works, and, on the other hand, Menard's (and therefore, Borges's) decision to attempt to reproduce chapters IX, XXII, and XXXVIII of the first part of Don Quixote. It is argued that these chapters possess particular significance, not only for Cervantes's novel but also for Borges's own literary project as well as for that of his fictional author. Lastly, three of Borges' most Cervantine short stories, “Death and the Compass”, “The South”, and “The Congress”, are briefly discussed.En más de noventa obras suyas, Borges se refiere de forma explícita a Cervantes, y en otras tantas hace alusión de manera implícita al padre de la novela moderna. Centrándose en “Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”, este ensayo analiza por un lado los juegos de auto-representación ocultos en la obra visible de Pierre Menard, y, por el otro, la decisión de Menard (y por ende, de Borges) de intentar reproducir los capítulos IX, XXII y XXXVIII de la primera parte del Quijote. Según se argumenta, éstos poseen un significado especial, no sólo para la obra de Cervantes, sino también para el proyecto literario de Borges, así como para el de su autor ficcional. Por último, se comentan brevemente tres de los relatos más cervantinos de Borges: “La muerte y la brújula”, “El sur” y “El congreso”
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
CONGLOMERATE SPIN-OFFS: WHETHER U.S. TAX LAW INHIBITS DECONGLOMERATION
Get PDF In this Note, I examine whether the complex nature of the U.S. spin-off rules and the burdens associated with successfully navigating such rules discourage conglomerates from breaking up into smaller companies through tax-free spin-offs. First, I argue that there are numerous disadvantages of conglomeration, which generally tend to outweigh any economic benefits derived from the conglomerate form. Next, I describe the statutory and nonstatutory requirements of tax-free spin-offs, evaluating particularly how each requirement may impact a conglomerate wishing to spin off one or more of its business units. Because conglomerates are usually multinational corporations, I also briefly consider the tax consequences of spinning off a foreign company. In the following section, I discuss the issuance of private letter rulings in connection with conglomerate spin-offs and assess whether the I.R.S.’s recent policy changes have accelerated spin-off activity or, to the contrary, whether they have produced a chilling effect on conglomerate spin-offs. Finally, I examine a recent example of a successful conglomerate spin-off—Liberty’s spin-off of TripAdvisor—before analyzing an example of a failed conglomerate spin-off—Yahoo’s attempt to spin off Alibaba. I conclude that, although tax-free spin-offs are occasionally unsuccessful, such failures are rare.
Even if the tax rules are byzantine and the monetary stakes are exceptionally high, conglomerates wishing to spin off business units typically manage to satisfy the requirements. Therefore, although U.S. tax law does not completely hinder deconglomeration, spin-offs are nevertheless costly. Fulfilling the spin-off requirements leads to economic inefficiencies because it entails expensive pre-spin-off restructuring and delays, as well as high transaction and friction costs
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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